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EnUred at the Port Office, Sea l*le City, N. J, ac lecond-claas matter. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1915 ANOTHER EYESORE. Civic pride in Sea Isle City scents to have been relegated to the past, judging from the piles of empty cigarette boxes, papers and jonk in general on the lot alongside of the Excursion House 5, garage, on Ocean Avenue, the city’s most trawled street If th-re V is 00 law now making^uch a mess a misdemeanor, one should be passed in double-quick time. | How anyone with any sense of cleanliness and decency could tolerate such a condition as exists at this point is beyond our conception. And, sad but true, this is not the only place of this kind . in town. We will point them out as fast as they come to our atteution. in the hope t.iat the proper authority, be it the Board of ‘ Health or the Director of Safety and Public Affaire, will take some posirive action to remedy the disgusting and revolting condition.

RUNNING THE PAPER. Everybody thinks he can run a newsneper better than the benighted souls who have been placed by Providence in that unenviable position. Maybe it’s l>ecause the editor’s faults are glaring ones—out in the open in black and white—or, possibly, it is just a queer quirk of human nature and the job’s so easy anyway. Running a newspaper is a sort of a side line with lots of people. The) offer advice in their spare moments with the same spirit as they play

golf or pinochle.

One would have the editor a militant suffragist, another demands that he rail against women voting. The prohibitionists can’t see how any decent person can be for the regulated saloons, and accrue him of selling out to the liquor interests if he takes that while the “ wets" say he is being intiininated by the Churches and ruled by the " drys ” if he is opposed to the saloon. The Demccrats say the paper Isa “ dirty rag ’’ if the editor is Republican in his sympathies, and the Republicans stop their subscriptions if he comes out for a democrat. If the editor is for anything the antis condemn him. and vice versa. If he takes a stand he is trying to dictate to the community: if he doesn’t take a stand he is a mollycoddle and a jellyfish. He is a crank, a reformer, a fanatic, a fourflusher, a crook, a disturber of the peace or just a plain idiot, according as he meets with the desires of his subscriU-rs or goes against them. And there you are. The average man never thinkof the trials aud tribulations even editor must undergo, and some o' them are so unappreciative of his efforts to boost the town and make money for them that the try to avoid even the price of a subscription.

To the Editor Cape Kay Co. Times:

Dear Sir,

It ha* been my nnforttmat* lot to r op again*: aereral people daring the li lev day* who were growling abont heavy tax re. It art me thinking whether tare* higher titan they should be con•klering the return ». I believe they I There ia nef the k W doubt that we paying too much for what we get, and if tind oat the real rraaon lor tins stale of affrtn. then Uie to apply. For it look aroond the town and me if w( r thing* that help U>

tax rats.

r the City employ* a garbage many resident* think it raly proper to greatly ado to hi* work by their careless collection of garbage into proper receptacle*, often leaving the lid off and allowing animal* to scatter the center' Uie place. This attitude can ewnlt in only one thing—that ths coot of collection ia going to be greater every year. The individual gain* nothing, bet certainly help* wonderfully to inc the By aud smell nuisance*. One not walk far on any pavement withoat having to walk over banana or orangtakina, which are not only dirty and betp to feed insect*, hut are really dangersn pedestrians. Piecec of paper frequently greet one' -with every change of the wind. The beach i* regarded by some a* a public dumping ground for housenold refnar, a* a walk under the boardwalk will prove. tilings react on the town in a two-fold manner. They increaae the exof trying to keep the place clean, and they disgust not only Uie who help pay lor abut also car »aimuer c’ieou, upon whom we depend. The Board of Health is a favorite object cf attack. It 4s blamed often for matteie •>*•:. which it baa no control, and any measures which they may adopt ultimate oenelit are met with the mt>e> stubborn resistance from many ol our people. These men serve without pay, and their expenses are so small in comparison to the amount 01 good they do that Uiey are easily the moat economical branch of the town’* institution*. But we might readily reduce eren their

WOULD BE THE SAME IN JERSEY. “The other day we printed in these columas a bit of a hmnai interest story takcu from the ‘ Spokesman Review,’ a newspaper i f Spokane, State of Washington. A ccording to the story, Baby Margaret, aged three months, was hungry. It was six o’clock the afternoon, aud Baby Margaret’s mother was tied up on a jury. Washington is oue of the States where women vote. Naturally, the mother could not go to Baby Margaret, but Baby Margaret could go to mother. The Spokane newspaper reported that the lather of the infant rushed the c()ild iu ac automobile to the court-house, wheic

it was nursed.

“ The poiut of the story, cf course, was to show the delights of jury service—the enjoyment that women of Pennsylvania can look forward to when they arc given the ballot But, somehow, some of the active suffragettes didn’t like the story. Dr. Anna Shaw wrote to •be judge who was sitting at the time, and the judge tells a different tale. It seems that he gave permission to the father to tiring in the cnild to court, where it could be ‘ nursed by the mother ii the presence of a woman bailiff.’ But it also seems that the night was a bad one aud the mother had the bailiff telephone not to take it out in that sort of weather. “ From which it would appear that Baliy Margaret, instead of being nicely fed, inissrd her meal entirely, and, since the judge failed to say how long the juiy remained tied up, she may be hnngr yet for all we know. “ We are glad to make the correction in the interest of history especially as it has brought out the fact that in Washington VvOtnuu is not forced to do jury service, but can always escape by merely pleading her aex. Tint would appear to lie rather a remarkable situation. The women of Washington—some of them— wsut their ‘ rights ’ so far as voting is concerned, but mry refuse to perform those duties that go with those 4 rights.' It is to the credit of the mother of Baby Margaret that she stood up to the racket, although Baby Margaret herself 'might not have appreciated such heroic deference to duty. “ O*’course a mere refusal to do jury service would not work out in Pennsylvania. Hue, if women are given the lialh.t, they wilj be subject to jury calls, aud to escape they must have legitimate excases such as wcuid satisfy the judges alter hearing them. “ But we don’t tbiuk that they need to irony just yet."—

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i expeuee just by a operation and enoouraceuicut. Opposition lo Uie regulations of Uii* departoften proves diaaMrons to the victim* of an epidemic. The same might well be said of Uie Board of Edocabon. Nearly all of us are positive that ac could manage Uie school far better than tbe board or tinteachers, especially those of us who sere never near it and speak only from besrtiearsay. To show oaratUtnde we openly disregard many of Uieir regulations for Uie proper and effective management of tbe place, and thereby waste a great deal of tbaeneigiee which might otherwise have been directed lo school w-rk. How many of ns know that most of the money Uie school get* from the State depend* upon the attendance of Uie pupils. Kvery day a child is absent Uie support from Uie State in WiUihe'd. Since it doesn’t alter Uie c«« of operating the school when a few pupil* are out, tinlocal taxes will have to make np the lose. In oUivr words, every day a parent keep* a child out he relieve* the Stale iu rhare ol Uie expense and adds Uial amount to the local tax. But nut igh. Oue might readily mention some other sources of waste of public wealth and you and I, friend, are to blame. Many of us imagine that when we elect oar public officials our civic duties are ended. Then as private ciliriM we proceed to show our independence by niakiiig it as difficult as possible for our officials to properly perform Uie duties of Uieir offices, forgetting Uiat such action only renders their work less effective and our expense* greater, because we always pay Uie bill, wlietfier Uie work la done or not. Whim Uie inevitable conies Uien we howl about taxes, talk about graft, have another hot old lime at the next election, and go on as before without learning ft.iythiug from past experience. tiood ciUxensliip, like good murals, cannot be legisln'ed, because legislation cannot be belter than Uie legislators who, in the Inst analyses, friend, are Uncommon people like you and me.

A CITIZEN.

THE FDBUO MUKAKY ql'KSTlON. j Editor Cape May County Times: wiUi interest Uie leUer of last week published iu tiieTiNKN advocating ; establishment of a free public library ! in Sea Lie City, and waul to assure 1 your cotiiwponileiit that it any such! •vemeiil is started I want lo be

u»*ed in on it.

II there is one thing iiiun- than other Uiat N-r Isle Oily needs, it is I just such an iiutiuiiion, wl run Id moot and have irst- i-veiuugs. and during Uie dal lei. it uiighlh.-inadea ii-qiiii membership hi donate one ol I ' laleet books published, so Uial li| literature < -uld he in ooiwlai Ins is a mailer for Uu Hen's Basinet* Association Civic Club to take np.

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HARRY H. LAKE State Licensed OPTICIAN from Ocean City WILL BE IN Sea Isle City, Tuesdays and Fridays, from 2 to 3 p. ra., To adjust Glasses, etc., aud accept Watches or Jewelry Repairing of all kinds.

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